How well do Canadian media outlets convey medical treatment information?: Initial findings from a year and a half of media monitoring by Media Doctor Canada.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Quality of information in news media reports about the effects of health interventions: Systematic review and meta-analyses.F1000Research · 2021
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2. Can we improve the quality of medical news merely by increasing journalists' health knowledge?Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2019
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3. Promoting the Quality of Health Research-based News: Introduction of a Tool.International journal of preventive medicine · 2017
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4. Health Reporting in Print Media in Lebanon: Evidence, Quality and Role in Informing Policymaking.PloS one · 2015
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5. Barriers of health news producers' empowerment: a qualitative study in iran.Health promotion perspectives · 2014
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6. Quality of health news disseminated in the print media in developing countries: a case study in Iran.BMC public health · 2012
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7. Does it matter who writes medical news stories?PLoS medicine · 2010
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8. Lay media reporting of rosiglitazone risk: extent, messaging and quality of reporting.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2009
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9. Characteristics of medical research news reported on front pages of newspapers.PloS one · 2009
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10. Media Hyping and the "Herceptin Access Story": An Analysis of Canadian and UK Newspaper Coverage.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2009
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11. Media reporting of health interventions: signs of improvement, but major problems persist.PloS one · 2009
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Authors and funding

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Abstract

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